Renault has stopped the production of the Mégane (thermal) in July 2024
- As we get closer in Europe to the 2035 deadline for the end of thermal vehicles, masse volume combustion engine models are disappearing one after the other.
- After the announcement of the end of the Ford Fiesta and the Volkswagen Up in 2023, and more recently of the Volkswagen Polo in July 2024, Renault has announced the termination of the Mégane assembled in Spain. This leaves only the battery electric Mégane (launched in 2022) to represent the carmaker's C-segment sedan in Europe.
- The sales drop of the Renault Mégane since 2005 has been impressive and inexorable. From over 350,000 units sold in 2005 (excluding Renault Scénic), the sales volume gradually fell to 150,000 units in 2014, then 35,000 in 2023 and only 10,000 in the first half of 2024.
- The Renault Mégane was an important model for the carmaker, launched in 1995 to succeed the Renault 19 (1988-1995). It was the mid-size C-segment sedan that competed with the VW Golf, Peugeot 306/307/308, Opel Astra and Ford Focus. Today, the VW Golf, Peugeot 308 and Opel Astra still exist, but the Ford Focus will be phased out without descendants in 2025.
- Luckily for Renault, its C-segment SUVs are numerous (Symbioz, Arkana, Austral) and the Sedan version with a trunk still exists in Turkey (nearly 50,000 sales per year). As for the Megane BEV, it will probably not be able to reach the sales volume at medium term of the thermal Megane recorded between 2005 and 2019.